Monday, March 27, 2006
Immigration & Average Incomes 3/27/06
Why are immigrants coming here? Could it be because of what is going on in their countries? Have we anything to do with it?
Could it be that multi-national corporations aided by successive U.S. governments have raped those lands for their resources, creating havoc and war, putting their desperate people into total poverty and forcing them to come here?
NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO have made this situation worse, and are now bringing down the average income of U.S. workers too. We are told that the economy is doing well and average incomes are going up, does that feel right to you?
Here’s an example: If a group of middle class people and one rich man were together in a room and their combined incomes divided between them became the average. What if that rich man went away to be replaced by Bill Gates, it would look as if average incomes as a whole had gone up, when of course they hadn’t.
Nothing is quite as black and white as it seems.
Could it be that multi-national corporations aided by successive U.S. governments have raped those lands for their resources, creating havoc and war, putting their desperate people into total poverty and forcing them to come here?
NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO have made this situation worse, and are now bringing down the average income of U.S. workers too. We are told that the economy is doing well and average incomes are going up, does that feel right to you?
Here’s an example: If a group of middle class people and one rich man were together in a room and their combined incomes divided between them became the average. What if that rich man went away to be replaced by Bill Gates, it would look as if average incomes as a whole had gone up, when of course they hadn’t.
Nothing is quite as black and white as it seems.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 5:56 PM 
